How much does JEC Foundation give?

JEC Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $695,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 44 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.

What does JEC Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Environment (15%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Health (12%).

Who are JEC Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($200k), Human Rights Watch Inc ($185k), Rebuilding Together East Bay Network ($160k).

Does JEC Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does JEC Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as JEC Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc.

JEC Foundation

JEC Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

JEC Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$695k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$465kHousing & Shelter$400kHealth$386kInternational$340kHuman Services$310kAnimals$254kArts & Culture$248kEducation$230kOther$0

02FY2026 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k41 grants · $675k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Human Rights Watch	$35,000
Doctors Without Borders	$30,000
KQED	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$30,000
Project Healing Waters	$30,000
Habitat For Humanity	$30,000
Puppies Behind Bars	$25,000
Monument Crisis Center	$25,000
The Basic Fund	$20,000
Marine Mammal Center	$20,000
Marin Agricultural Land Trust	$20,000
World Central Kitchen	$20,000
Medshare	$20,000
Food Forward	$20,000
ALS Association	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 46 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+54%

Still filing today

72%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
6× · 2021–2026 · $200k · revenue +20%
RT
Rebuilding Together East Bay Network
3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +350%
PB
PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
6× · 2021–2026 · $155k · revenue +34%

Funded once

B
Baykeepers
one grant, 2021 · $20k
OE
Oakland Elizabeth Housegraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +54%
BR
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATREgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +87%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to promote sustainability in the Bay Area and beyond by engaging communities in avian science, habitat restoration, and education.

Environment

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals

Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay; the most unlike its peers is Oakland Elizabeth House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

34/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,946,000International$525,000Human Services$363,000Environment$325,000Animals$289,000Food & Nutrition$225,000Health$225,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco FoundationCA18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Patagoniaorg · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization JEC Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JEC Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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